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1878] Brighton), written by Mr. T. Edgar Pemberton, and entitled My
Wife's Father's Sister. In the usual way, bills were posted all
over the town? the stage was even set for David Garrick?when a
telegram arrived stating that Sothern was too ill to act, and the
theatre was closed. My Wife's Father's Sister (Sothern had
christened the play, rejoicing in what he called "the wild- ness "
of the title) was never acted in Birmingham. The other day Mr.
Pemberton, showing me the playbill announcing its performance, told
me that he always regarded it as the most completely satisfactory
of his local productions. In this same season a contingent of Mr.
John Hollingshead's Gaiety Company, that included Miss Kate Lawler,
Miss "Connie" Gilchrist, and pretty and much-photographed Miss
Evelyn Rayne, appeared in a variety of slight pieces; a very
doubtfully attractive "coloured" company disported themselves in
Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the subsequently great London favourite,
Miss See Foot-note to page 125. 1878 Florence St. John, was seen in
Les Cloches de Comeville. A more than usually welcome engagement,
too, was that of the Strand Company which then included Mr. W. H.
Vernon, Mons. Marius, Mr. J. G. Grahame, Mr. Harry Cox, Mr. F.
Wyatt, Mr. W. S. Penley, Miss Ada Swanborough, Miss Lottie Venne,
Miss Maria Jones, and Miss Rachel Sanger. Their repertory included
F. C. Burnand's well constructed and wittily written comedy Our
Club, and the same author's good old style burlesque The Red Rover:
or, I Believe You, My Buoy. A pleasanter evening's entertainment it
would be difficult to imagine. Albeit the memory is a saddened one
to-day, one cannot help recalling that the 1878 season at the Royal
witnessed the first appearance of the late Mr. Joseph Maas with the
Carl Rosa Opera Company...
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